Potential Titles: Darkness
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somethingdarkerSurvived the groaning machinery of darkness - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
When in darkness sinks my sun - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
An exhalation rising from a darkness foreign - Etel Adnan "Night"
The great wheel of darkness - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Through the darkness shining forth from a ruin near - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
In darkness and perfect silence - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
A darkness I couldn't follow - Alise Alousi "Patterns of Departure"
Finds forms in the darkness - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Ten times the nerve, which is stitching darkness - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
In his own darkness - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel and the woman"
Lucid in this darkness - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Terror and darkness to the proud - Avena "Columbia's Banner"
Burn because you remember darkness - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"
My spirit keep from deeds of darkness - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"
drops through the darkness and forgets - Elizabeth Bartlett "measured interval"
A morning where darkness shines - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"
Swing upon circles of darkness - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
As darkness coils around our rugged path - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"
The damp straw smell of darkness - Ellen Bass "Lighthouse"
To disappointment's sudden darkness wanes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
Those darknesses to me are veils - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott
All my reparations made in darkness - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
That wailing wind in the darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "Ad Atticum"
Made half the sky one darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
Swinging darkness into song - Joshua Bennett "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
Even darkness generates light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Midnight darkness, crimes, and blood - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
For whom the world darkens - Robert Bly "Prayer for My Father"
The darkness that I remember - Robert Bly "Waiting for the Stars"
To whom the darkness is a child - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"
Darkness hangs our room with pendulums - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
How early darkness comes to dreams - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
Darkness sets adrift the rest - Marianne Boruch "After Supper in Madison, Wisconsin"
Hear you loudest in darkness - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"
From darkness into glimmering ecstasies - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
A glorious darkness - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Darkness under elevated trains at noon - Sue Budin "City"
Unfolding from darkness and dreamland - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Our horizon with darkness will be spread - John Bunyan "Of the Going Down of the Sun"
Darkness silently unfurls among colossal ruins - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
The resonant and ancient darkness - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Devours the darkness of our hearts with fire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
Darkness toppling from the height - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"
The arms of Darkness - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"
That through the darkness swim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Darkness is falling without end - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"
The door of the darkness fallen ajar - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Another alley that ran straight into darkness - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Within the sceptic darkness deep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
Where the light and the darkness divide - Leonard Cohen "Ballad of the Absent Mare"
But darkness was the prize - Leonard Cohen "Darkness"
Refused to call the darkness poetry - Leonard Cohen "Welcome to These Lines"
Darkness will give you back - Henri Cole "To Sleep"
Light shall be dark and darkness shine - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"
Struggling with the darkness all night - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
The vision of dust-borne darkness - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"
Wings for darkness - Hilda Conkling "The Lonesome Green Apple"
Light in the bosom of darkness has birth - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
With a dead eye into darkness - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"
As long as darkness hung her pall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
The majesty soft darkness lent - R.P. Crenshaw, Jr. "Echo"
Where Darkness sat enthroned in silent state - Albert Francis Cross "Let There Be Light" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.118-v.III, 3 April 1886]
darkness and beauty of stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
lead us into the serious steep darkness - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"
from steep hills by darkness softly brought - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Abiding under the darkness - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
All light to darkness turning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
In darkness buried deep for ever be my ghost - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
The darkness between two buildings - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"
Burning stars in darkness of the snow - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
Crouched listening in the darkness - Walter de la Mare "Cumberland"
silent notes falling into dust and darkness - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"
Intuition of the weight of darkness - Diane DeCillis "Margin of Error"
Accused of darkness by my inner light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
Conserved light by walking in darkness - Toi Derricotte "St. Peter Claver"
Some darknesses refuse to fade - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"
When darkness dawned a black moon - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Darkness underneath your eyes - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"
Darkness from the Little Dipper's spoon - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"
Where the trout in the darkness hide - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"
Had sprung complete from darkness - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
Let the shadows troop to darkness - Edward Dowden "To Hester"
The gates of darkness bind - Augusta Theodosia Drane "Maris Stella"
The darkness your light supports - Boris Dralyuk "The Bureau of Street Lighting"
Filling its darkness with bright things - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
This utter, sooted darkness - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
Risen like this cold stone in the darkness - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
Loved darkness with my needle-teeth - J. Federle "Possession of the Farmer's Son"
Thrown in the darkness of the strife - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"
In the lowly mart of tremulous darkness - Darrell Figgis "[Friends vanish at my face]"
A seam stitching darkness like a name - Annie Finch "Samhain"
The darkness where all of me is ancestor - Annie Finch "Samhain"
The hand of darkness hollowed - Joseph Kearney Foran "The Aurora Borealis"
Real as anything in the darkness - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
Disappear into the ethical darkness - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
Out of the passaged darkness - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
Saluted the arrival of webby darkness - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
The straight road curved by darkness - April Freely "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longing or Dread"
With darkness ridged the riven dark - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
What but design of darkness to appall - Robert Frost "Design"
In the darkness of her need - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"
Interrogated by the darkness - Nikita Gill "A Conversation with My Mental Illness"
Created to swallow darkness - Nikita Gill "Dragon's Breath"
The darkness behind your shining star - Nikita Gill "Hades to Persephone"
Accepting the graceful darkness - Nikita Gill "What It Means to Be a Forgotten Magic Maker"
Some truths that only darkness knows - Dana Gioia "The Underworld: IX. Questions"
Clear darkness, sheer light - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"
Here name means Unjump The Darkness - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Darkness burns to ashes - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
Through long years of toil and darkness - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Shall make all darkness clear - Ivor Gurney "Afterwards"
Against some unimagined darkness - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
Wraps its disaster in darkness - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"
Stand on a rock in the darkness - Ben Hecht "My Island"
Bending over you in the darkness - Ben Hecht "My Island"
The loud and loitering footfall of darkness - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Vaulted about with the wonder of darkness - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Darkness that lives beneath the leaves - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Thro' Moon illumined Darkness hurled - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"
Be mine alone the darkness and the sorrow - Walter Herries [found in his papers after his death, attribution uncertain] "Good-Night" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Where darkness branches - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
While darkness vibrated around him - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
With loners and insomniacs facing the darkness - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
A Darkness on the stair will not be turned - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
That year of now done darkness - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Carrion Comfort"
West and away the wheels of darkness roll - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVI: Revolution"
Help me to shatter this darkness - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
Cutting the darkness and kissing the moon - Langston Hughes "Moonlight Night: Carmel"
My glory out of darkness springs - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Adrift in the inky darkness - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
Be kind to our darkness - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The Middle Watch"
Gave darkness an echo of control - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"
Scarlet flowers breathing in the darkness - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
Chases darkness to the west - James Weldon Johnson "Prayer at Sunrise"
Darkness mistakes me for sunrise - Saeed Jones "He Thinks He Can Leave Me"
Through the darkness with his own becoming light - June Jordan "July 4, 1974"
And rolled on in thunderous darkness - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
When sleep and darkness follow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
Followed a star through the darkness - Henry Kendall "Achan"
From the Tower of Darkness cries - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Flood the house with darkness - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
How do you see into darkness? - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"
Pacing off light hidden in darkness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
Between ideograms depicting darkness - Christopher Kondrich "Layer of Ash"
Little patience with darkness - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"
Run its roots out into the salty darkness - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"
With small hope from the center of darkness - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"
Beneath the straining wall of darkness - Ted Kooser "Telescope"
Begins in a different darkness - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
When the darkness wakes them - Keetje Kuipers "The Rats"
Speaking dirges into the phantom darkness - Youna Kwak "After"
Through darkness on an evil land - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Darkness in thy dwelling-place - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
This is what a darkness makes - Rickey Laurentiis "I Saw I Dreamt Two Men"
Wastes of roving darkness - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
How globed in Egyptian darkness - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"
Tall angels of darkness advancing steadily - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
We need not dissemble our darkness - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"
In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Nearly merged in the darkness - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"
Angels in the darkness quail - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"
The darkness of cellar and hearth - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
At my lips before darkness - Denise Levertov "Midnight Gladness"
No darkness we can say was his - Philip Levine "The Search for Lorca's Shadow"
Have wrestled in the darkness - Amy Levy "Medea"
Through darkness smooth as amber - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Because the darkness is now always overhead - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
Who set out without the protection of darkness - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
The subatomics of creation, colliding in darkness - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Inner darkness before ceremony - Manny Loley "Let There Be"
Which warns the soul of sundering darkness - Amy Lowell "The End"
Where the windows shone across the darkness - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Narrowed to such stifling darkness - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"
Born of oblivious darkness - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)
Into the darkness of the dawn - Edwin Markham "One Life, One Law"
Starless darkness and the rush of rain - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Sprinkles darkness with his gold - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Midnight splits the darkness in two - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
Wander in pristine darkness - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"
Be welcome in resolute darkness - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"
Beauty on the darkness hurled - John Masefield "Invocation"
Looks upon embowered darkness - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
At the breath of darkness - Florence Ripley Mastin "Dust"
After we've reached the ends of darkness - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"
Doubt and darkness to evade - Thomas D'Arcy McGee "To Ask Our Lady's Patronage for a Book on Columbus: A Fragment"
Treasures hidden in darkness - Erika Meitner "Ghost Eden"
No choice save darkness or rebellion - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Opened from the darkness afterward - W.S. Merwin "The Mole"
Rich with the darkness of forgetting - Dante Micheaux "Funhouse"
Every word a path through darkness - Claire Millikin "The Hunt"
Sleep in pods of darkness - David Mook "Milkweed"
Like space in darkness slept - Dugald Moore "The First Ship"
And watch the darkness come - Jim Moore "The Need Is So Great"
Search for cauldrons in the darkness - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
Sees darkness regain swift command - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
Clouds of dust and darkness - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Young warrior of darkness and copper - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the grape's green darkness - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Settling into a new sphere of darkness - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly
The way darkness embraces the day - Pablo Neruda "Men X" transl. by William O'Daly
The darkness asking the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Safe enough to confront the darkness - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
Darkness being watered thin - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Halloween, 14"
Enlarges the grim coasts of utter darkness - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"
On the yet unbroken darkness thrown - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
The drums and the darkness within - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
The soul that grows in darkness - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Only darkness follows darkness - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"
Darkness enters the face of the lily - Mary Oliver "The Lily"
Into the floor of darkness - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"
Swirling back from darkness - Mary Oliver "The Notebook"
Setting traps out for darkness - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Over the waters of our own darkness - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
The daylight route to darkness - Grace Paley [untitled]
The doors of darkness tremble - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Arms held out to darkness - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
But darkness is contagious - Linda Pastan "The moon"
The homeless night-wind in darkness - Sir Noel Paton "In Shadowland"
Notes that make darkness bright - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
Horror of outcast darkness torn - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
The rulers of the darkness of this world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"
Cold nights of moral darkness - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
Water stilled & bound to darkness - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"
Illume my darkness and direct my praise - Philo "The Tribute"
The great equity of darkness - Emily Pittinos "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
That web of close-knit darkness - John Presland "The Deluge"
Sliding down the rain-filled darkness - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
The hydrogen core of some small man's darkness - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist, Gaslit"
Surrounded by the sound of darkness - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
To the Summer Darkness wed - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Moon"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - Edward Sprague Rand "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Abruptly bandaged in darkness - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
The yawning darkness eating all sense - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
Eternal threw their flickering darkness - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
In the conch shell of darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Drift now beneath its feathered darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Down into rich and endless darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Glitters in indigo darkness - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Caparisoned in your secret darkness - Lola Ridge "Seed"
Secret darkness full of green banners - Lola Ridge "Seed"
In your surrounded darkness - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
Through the husk of darkness thrown - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
Cooled and flushed through with darkness - Lola Ridge "Wall Street at Night"
Has learned to carve many doors out of its darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Everything becomes a protest against darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Flag unrolled in darkness - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont
some people hating the darkness of crow - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
Through your sundering darkness - Charles G.D. Roberts "O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs"
A darkness brighter than the blazing noon - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Eve"
A wall of leaping darkness over her - Muriel Rukeyser "Painters"
Stages of darkness - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"
Darkness and silence knotted to suspense - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
More darkness than teeth - R.S. Saha "Kin"
The only thing whispering darkness into my mother's eyes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
When only darkness has the space - Janice Lobo Sapigao "There Will Be No Funeral"
Dropped through crimson gloom to darkness - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
Takes from darkness and cold their undivided victories - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Into the conquered darkness - Fritz Schnack "Blooming Sunlight" transl. by William Saphier
Held sparks within their darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"
Ancient opener of all ways to darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Clotted darkness threatening moonlight - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"
Darkness slides from their heights - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
A meteor of hope in the darkness - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Prolonged the sway of timeless darkness - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
The rich chord of full darkness - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"
And the darkness of thy steps - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
In darkness seize their prey - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Across the darkness flung the ribbons of the Northern Light - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Darkness keeps each corner of the town - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The Last Storm"
Two images returning to the same darkness - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Darkness that will tear the sky down - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"
The darkness of the three worlds - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
the darkness cradling the milky way - Evie Shockley "black love"
That wakes me in the darkness - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fair Little Maiden"
Our ship through light and darkness - Joyce Sidman "Always at Home"
The vast, breathing darkness of your realm - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"
As darkness wraps me in its arms - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"
Wreathes of hope in darkness laid - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The New Year"
Where was darkness shines a moon - "Silly Sweetheart"
Doors that swing into darkness - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
That bleeds in cloud and darkness - Clark Ashton Smith "Solution"
All darkness rendered shelterless - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Agony lights up the darkness - L. Virginia Smith "Bless the Homestead Law"
In deep darkness on a cold twig - Kim Stafford "For the Bird Singing Before Dawn"
Ere the darkness could forget - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
Out of darkness and unhallowed years - George Sterling "Repentance"
Fountains of darkness and tempest and thunder - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
Through darkness naked and steep - Algernon Swinburne "Sleep"
Flicker in the tide of darkness - Arthur Sze "Xeriscape"
All eight directions a single darkness - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson
Wakes from the darkness of three thousand years - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Make clear the road through toil and darkness - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
All folded into one darkness - To-Em-Mei "The Unmoving Cloud" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Pinch light from a darkness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
No holes or twists of darkness visible - Edwin Torres "Hydra"
Eyes that prick the darkness - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"
Whining to the scent of darkness - Iris Tree "Streets"
The tiaraed brows of darkness - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Distilling light from volatile darkness - Natasha Trethewey "Give and Take"
Dance out of the darkness - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"
A firefly threading the darkness - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson
The darkness cannot light the street - Perhat Tursun "The Night" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The cloud persists in the darkness - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: Polaroids"
The darkness flung aside - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"
how else to explain this oscillating darkness - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
Older than the first burst of stars exploding the darkness - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
What formal suggestion of darkness - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Measured"
The outer heights of darkness tumble - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
Secret rivers that darkness feeds on - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
Tides of flame and darkness - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Later in star syrup darkness - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"
Shall speak to us with lips the darkness closes - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
The embroidered hem of darkness - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
A sullen bar of light athwart the darkness - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"
Patient in the darkness - Margaret Widdemer "The Dark Cavalier"
Comforted by darkness - Margaret Widdemer "The Dark Cavalier"
Through a fen of filthy darkness grope - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
In the futile darkness of a wall - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"
In daylight, then darkness - Katie Willingham "The Golden Record"
Seeking lucid speech in colonies of darkness - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"
No darkness steps out of the woods - Charles Wright "Across the Creek Is the Other Side of the River"
What darkness snips at our hearts - Charles Wright "History Is a Burning Chariot"
Darkness is dropping inches beneath the earth - Charles Wright "Terrestrial Music"
Swift darkness is spring's first hour - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"
Under the lonely darkness I stumble - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"
Imprisoning empty darkness - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
A tired star in stormy darkness - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Ever unwilling to accept the darkness - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #4" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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When in darkness sinks my sun - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
An exhalation rising from a darkness foreign - Etel Adnan "Night"
The great wheel of darkness - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Through the darkness shining forth from a ruin near - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
In darkness and perfect silence - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
A darkness I couldn't follow - Alise Alousi "Patterns of Departure"
Finds forms in the darkness - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Ten times the nerve, which is stitching darkness - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
In his own darkness - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel and the woman"
Lucid in this darkness - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Terror and darkness to the proud - Avena "Columbia's Banner"
Burn because you remember darkness - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"
My spirit keep from deeds of darkness - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"
drops through the darkness and forgets - Elizabeth Bartlett "measured interval"
A morning where darkness shines - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"
Swing upon circles of darkness - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
As darkness coils around our rugged path - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"
The damp straw smell of darkness - Ellen Bass "Lighthouse"
To disappointment's sudden darkness wanes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
Those darknesses to me are veils - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott
All my reparations made in darkness - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
That wailing wind in the darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "Ad Atticum"
Made half the sky one darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
Swinging darkness into song - Joshua Bennett "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
Even darkness generates light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Midnight darkness, crimes, and blood - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
For whom the world darkens - Robert Bly "Prayer for My Father"
The darkness that I remember - Robert Bly "Waiting for the Stars"
To whom the darkness is a child - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"
Darkness hangs our room with pendulums - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
How early darkness comes to dreams - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
Darkness sets adrift the rest - Marianne Boruch "After Supper in Madison, Wisconsin"
Hear you loudest in darkness - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"
From darkness into glimmering ecstasies - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
A glorious darkness - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Darkness under elevated trains at noon - Sue Budin "City"
Unfolding from darkness and dreamland - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Our horizon with darkness will be spread - John Bunyan "Of the Going Down of the Sun"
Darkness silently unfurls among colossal ruins - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
The resonant and ancient darkness - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Devours the darkness of our hearts with fire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
Darkness toppling from the height - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"
The arms of Darkness - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"
That through the darkness swim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Darkness is falling without end - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"
The door of the darkness fallen ajar - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Another alley that ran straight into darkness - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Within the sceptic darkness deep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
Where the light and the darkness divide - Leonard Cohen "Ballad of the Absent Mare"
But darkness was the prize - Leonard Cohen "Darkness"
Refused to call the darkness poetry - Leonard Cohen "Welcome to These Lines"
Darkness will give you back - Henri Cole "To Sleep"
Light shall be dark and darkness shine - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"
Struggling with the darkness all night - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
The vision of dust-borne darkness - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"
Wings for darkness - Hilda Conkling "The Lonesome Green Apple"
Light in the bosom of darkness has birth - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
With a dead eye into darkness - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"
As long as darkness hung her pall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
The majesty soft darkness lent - R.P. Crenshaw, Jr. "Echo"
Where Darkness sat enthroned in silent state - Albert Francis Cross "Let There Be Light" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.118-v.III, 3 April 1886]
darkness and beauty of stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
lead us into the serious steep darkness - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"
from steep hills by darkness softly brought - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Abiding under the darkness - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
All light to darkness turning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
In darkness buried deep for ever be my ghost - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
The darkness between two buildings - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"
Burning stars in darkness of the snow - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
Crouched listening in the darkness - Walter de la Mare "Cumberland"
silent notes falling into dust and darkness - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"
Intuition of the weight of darkness - Diane DeCillis "Margin of Error"
Accused of darkness by my inner light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
Conserved light by walking in darkness - Toi Derricotte "St. Peter Claver"
Some darknesses refuse to fade - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"
When darkness dawned a black moon - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Darkness underneath your eyes - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"
Darkness from the Little Dipper's spoon - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"
Where the trout in the darkness hide - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"
Had sprung complete from darkness - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
Let the shadows troop to darkness - Edward Dowden "To Hester"
The gates of darkness bind - Augusta Theodosia Drane "Maris Stella"
The darkness your light supports - Boris Dralyuk "The Bureau of Street Lighting"
Filling its darkness with bright things - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
This utter, sooted darkness - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
Risen like this cold stone in the darkness - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
Loved darkness with my needle-teeth - J. Federle "Possession of the Farmer's Son"
Thrown in the darkness of the strife - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"
In the lowly mart of tremulous darkness - Darrell Figgis "[Friends vanish at my face]"
A seam stitching darkness like a name - Annie Finch "Samhain"
The darkness where all of me is ancestor - Annie Finch "Samhain"
The hand of darkness hollowed - Joseph Kearney Foran "The Aurora Borealis"
Real as anything in the darkness - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
Disappear into the ethical darkness - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
Out of the passaged darkness - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
Saluted the arrival of webby darkness - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
The straight road curved by darkness - April Freely "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longing or Dread"
With darkness ridged the riven dark - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
What but design of darkness to appall - Robert Frost "Design"
In the darkness of her need - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"
Interrogated by the darkness - Nikita Gill "A Conversation with My Mental Illness"
Created to swallow darkness - Nikita Gill "Dragon's Breath"
The darkness behind your shining star - Nikita Gill "Hades to Persephone"
Accepting the graceful darkness - Nikita Gill "What It Means to Be a Forgotten Magic Maker"
Some truths that only darkness knows - Dana Gioia "The Underworld: IX. Questions"
Clear darkness, sheer light - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"
Here name means Unjump The Darkness - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Darkness burns to ashes - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
Through long years of toil and darkness - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Shall make all darkness clear - Ivor Gurney "Afterwards"
Against some unimagined darkness - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
Wraps its disaster in darkness - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"
Stand on a rock in the darkness - Ben Hecht "My Island"
Bending over you in the darkness - Ben Hecht "My Island"
The loud and loitering footfall of darkness - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Vaulted about with the wonder of darkness - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Darkness that lives beneath the leaves - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Thro' Moon illumined Darkness hurled - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"
Be mine alone the darkness and the sorrow - Walter Herries [found in his papers after his death, attribution uncertain] "Good-Night" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Where darkness branches - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
While darkness vibrated around him - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
With loners and insomniacs facing the darkness - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
A Darkness on the stair will not be turned - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
That year of now done darkness - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Carrion Comfort"
West and away the wheels of darkness roll - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVI: Revolution"
Help me to shatter this darkness - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
Cutting the darkness and kissing the moon - Langston Hughes "Moonlight Night: Carmel"
My glory out of darkness springs - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Adrift in the inky darkness - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
Be kind to our darkness - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The Middle Watch"
Gave darkness an echo of control - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"
Scarlet flowers breathing in the darkness - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
Chases darkness to the west - James Weldon Johnson "Prayer at Sunrise"
Darkness mistakes me for sunrise - Saeed Jones "He Thinks He Can Leave Me"
Through the darkness with his own becoming light - June Jordan "July 4, 1974"
And rolled on in thunderous darkness - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
When sleep and darkness follow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
Followed a star through the darkness - Henry Kendall "Achan"
From the Tower of Darkness cries - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Flood the house with darkness - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
How do you see into darkness? - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"
Pacing off light hidden in darkness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
Between ideograms depicting darkness - Christopher Kondrich "Layer of Ash"
Little patience with darkness - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"
Run its roots out into the salty darkness - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"
With small hope from the center of darkness - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"
Beneath the straining wall of darkness - Ted Kooser "Telescope"
Begins in a different darkness - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
When the darkness wakes them - Keetje Kuipers "The Rats"
Speaking dirges into the phantom darkness - Youna Kwak "After"
Through darkness on an evil land - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Darkness in thy dwelling-place - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
This is what a darkness makes - Rickey Laurentiis "I Saw I Dreamt Two Men"
Wastes of roving darkness - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
How globed in Egyptian darkness - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"
Tall angels of darkness advancing steadily - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
We need not dissemble our darkness - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"
In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Nearly merged in the darkness - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"
Angels in the darkness quail - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"
The darkness of cellar and hearth - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
At my lips before darkness - Denise Levertov "Midnight Gladness"
No darkness we can say was his - Philip Levine "The Search for Lorca's Shadow"
Have wrestled in the darkness - Amy Levy "Medea"
Through darkness smooth as amber - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Because the darkness is now always overhead - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
Who set out without the protection of darkness - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
The subatomics of creation, colliding in darkness - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Inner darkness before ceremony - Manny Loley "Let There Be"
Which warns the soul of sundering darkness - Amy Lowell "The End"
Where the windows shone across the darkness - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Narrowed to such stifling darkness - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"
Born of oblivious darkness - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)
Into the darkness of the dawn - Edwin Markham "One Life, One Law"
Starless darkness and the rush of rain - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Sprinkles darkness with his gold - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Midnight splits the darkness in two - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
Wander in pristine darkness - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"
Be welcome in resolute darkness - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"
Beauty on the darkness hurled - John Masefield "Invocation"
Looks upon embowered darkness - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
At the breath of darkness - Florence Ripley Mastin "Dust"
After we've reached the ends of darkness - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"
Doubt and darkness to evade - Thomas D'Arcy McGee "To Ask Our Lady's Patronage for a Book on Columbus: A Fragment"
Treasures hidden in darkness - Erika Meitner "Ghost Eden"
No choice save darkness or rebellion - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Opened from the darkness afterward - W.S. Merwin "The Mole"
Rich with the darkness of forgetting - Dante Micheaux "Funhouse"
Every word a path through darkness - Claire Millikin "The Hunt"
Sleep in pods of darkness - David Mook "Milkweed"
Like space in darkness slept - Dugald Moore "The First Ship"
And watch the darkness come - Jim Moore "The Need Is So Great"
Search for cauldrons in the darkness - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
Sees darkness regain swift command - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
Clouds of dust and darkness - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Young warrior of darkness and copper - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the grape's green darkness - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Settling into a new sphere of darkness - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly
The way darkness embraces the day - Pablo Neruda "Men X" transl. by William O'Daly
The darkness asking the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Safe enough to confront the darkness - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
Darkness being watered thin - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Halloween, 14"
Enlarges the grim coasts of utter darkness - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"
On the yet unbroken darkness thrown - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
The drums and the darkness within - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
The soul that grows in darkness - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Only darkness follows darkness - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"
Darkness enters the face of the lily - Mary Oliver "The Lily"
Into the floor of darkness - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"
Swirling back from darkness - Mary Oliver "The Notebook"
Setting traps out for darkness - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Over the waters of our own darkness - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
The daylight route to darkness - Grace Paley [untitled]
The doors of darkness tremble - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Arms held out to darkness - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
But darkness is contagious - Linda Pastan "The moon"
The homeless night-wind in darkness - Sir Noel Paton "In Shadowland"
Notes that make darkness bright - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
Horror of outcast darkness torn - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
The rulers of the darkness of this world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"
Cold nights of moral darkness - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
Water stilled & bound to darkness - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"
Illume my darkness and direct my praise - Philo "The Tribute"
The great equity of darkness - Emily Pittinos "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
That web of close-knit darkness - John Presland "The Deluge"
Sliding down the rain-filled darkness - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
The hydrogen core of some small man's darkness - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist, Gaslit"
Surrounded by the sound of darkness - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
To the Summer Darkness wed - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Moon"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - Edward Sprague Rand "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Abruptly bandaged in darkness - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
The yawning darkness eating all sense - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
Eternal threw their flickering darkness - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
In the conch shell of darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Drift now beneath its feathered darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Down into rich and endless darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Glitters in indigo darkness - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Caparisoned in your secret darkness - Lola Ridge "Seed"
Secret darkness full of green banners - Lola Ridge "Seed"
In your surrounded darkness - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
Through the husk of darkness thrown - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
Cooled and flushed through with darkness - Lola Ridge "Wall Street at Night"
Has learned to carve many doors out of its darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Everything becomes a protest against darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Flag unrolled in darkness - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont
some people hating the darkness of crow - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"
Through your sundering darkness - Charles G.D. Roberts "O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs"
A darkness brighter than the blazing noon - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Eve"
A wall of leaping darkness over her - Muriel Rukeyser "Painters"
Stages of darkness - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"
Darkness and silence knotted to suspense - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
More darkness than teeth - R.S. Saha "Kin"
The only thing whispering darkness into my mother's eyes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
When only darkness has the space - Janice Lobo Sapigao "There Will Be No Funeral"
Dropped through crimson gloom to darkness - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
Takes from darkness and cold their undivided victories - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Into the conquered darkness - Fritz Schnack "Blooming Sunlight" transl. by William Saphier
Held sparks within their darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"
Ancient opener of all ways to darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Clotted darkness threatening moonlight - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"
Darkness slides from their heights - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
A meteor of hope in the darkness - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Prolonged the sway of timeless darkness - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
The rich chord of full darkness - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"
And the darkness of thy steps - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
In darkness seize their prey - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Across the darkness flung the ribbons of the Northern Light - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Darkness keeps each corner of the town - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The Last Storm"
Two images returning to the same darkness - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Darkness that will tear the sky down - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"
The darkness of the three worlds - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
the darkness cradling the milky way - Evie Shockley "black love"
That wakes me in the darkness - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fair Little Maiden"
Our ship through light and darkness - Joyce Sidman "Always at Home"
The vast, breathing darkness of your realm - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"
As darkness wraps me in its arms - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"
Wreathes of hope in darkness laid - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The New Year"
Where was darkness shines a moon - "Silly Sweetheart"
Doors that swing into darkness - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
That bleeds in cloud and darkness - Clark Ashton Smith "Solution"
All darkness rendered shelterless - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Agony lights up the darkness - L. Virginia Smith "Bless the Homestead Law"
In deep darkness on a cold twig - Kim Stafford "For the Bird Singing Before Dawn"
Ere the darkness could forget - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
Out of darkness and unhallowed years - George Sterling "Repentance"
Fountains of darkness and tempest and thunder - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
Through darkness naked and steep - Algernon Swinburne "Sleep"
Flicker in the tide of darkness - Arthur Sze "Xeriscape"
All eight directions a single darkness - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson
Wakes from the darkness of three thousand years - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Make clear the road through toil and darkness - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
All folded into one darkness - To-Em-Mei "The Unmoving Cloud" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Pinch light from a darkness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
No holes or twists of darkness visible - Edwin Torres "Hydra"
Eyes that prick the darkness - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"
Whining to the scent of darkness - Iris Tree "Streets"
The tiaraed brows of darkness - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Distilling light from volatile darkness - Natasha Trethewey "Give and Take"
Dance out of the darkness - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"
A firefly threading the darkness - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson
The darkness cannot light the street - Perhat Tursun "The Night" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The cloud persists in the darkness - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: Polaroids"
The darkness flung aside - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"
how else to explain this oscillating darkness - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
Older than the first burst of stars exploding the darkness - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
What formal suggestion of darkness - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Measured"
The outer heights of darkness tumble - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
Secret rivers that darkness feeds on - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
Tides of flame and darkness - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Later in star syrup darkness - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"
Shall speak to us with lips the darkness closes - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
The embroidered hem of darkness - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
A sullen bar of light athwart the darkness - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"
Patient in the darkness - Margaret Widdemer "The Dark Cavalier"
Comforted by darkness - Margaret Widdemer "The Dark Cavalier"
Through a fen of filthy darkness grope - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
In the futile darkness of a wall - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"
In daylight, then darkness - Katie Willingham "The Golden Record"
Seeking lucid speech in colonies of darkness - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"
No darkness steps out of the woods - Charles Wright "Across the Creek Is the Other Side of the River"
What darkness snips at our hearts - Charles Wright "History Is a Burning Chariot"
Darkness is dropping inches beneath the earth - Charles Wright "Terrestrial Music"
Swift darkness is spring's first hour - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"
Under the lonely darkness I stumble - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"
Imprisoning empty darkness - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
A tired star in stormy darkness - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Ever unwilling to accept the darkness - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #4" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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